m Memory i Interrupts v Disk VM c CPU d Disk Adapter p Power states n Network u Disk Device f for add/remove fields V show only virtual machine instances 2 highlight a row scrolling down 8 highlight a row scrolling up spacebar: refresh screen s 2: refresh screen every two seconds vSphere 5.5 ESXTOP quick Overview for Troubleshooting Memory Status: high enough free memory available soft < 4% free memory: Host reclaim memory by balloon driver hard < 2% free memory: Host starts to swap, you will see performance troubles low < 1% free memory: ESX stop the VMs to allocate more RAM CACHEUSD: Memory (in MB) compressed by ESXi Host ZIP/s: Values larger 0 indicate that the host is actively compressing memory. UNZIP/s: Values larger 0 indicate that the host is accessing compressed memory. Reason for this behaviour is memory overcommitment. 1 1 Disk d Fields: A B G J NUMA m (change to memory view) Fields: D G MCTLSZ: Amount of guest physical memory (MB) the ESXi Host is reclaiming by balloon driver. A reason for this is memory overcommitment. 1 SWR/s, SWW/s: Rate at which the ESXi Host is writing to or reading from swapped memory. Possible cause: memory overcommitment. 1 DAVG: Latency at the device driver level Indicator for storage performance troubles >25 ABRTS/s: Commands aborted per second If the storage system has not responded within 60 seconds VMs with an Windows Operating System will issue an abort. 1 Resets/s: number of commands reset per second 1 KAVG: Latency caused by VMKernel Possible cause: Queuing (wrong queue depth parameter or wrong failover policy) 3 N%L: Percentage of VM Memory located at the local NUMA Node. If this value is less than 80 Percent the VM will experience performance issues. <80 NMN: Numa Node where the VM is located NRMEM: VM Memory (in MB) located at remote Node NLMEM: VM Memory (in MB) located at local Node %USED: CPU Core cycles used by a VM. High values are an indicator for VMs causing performance problems on ESXi Hosts. %SWPWT: Counter showing how long a VM has to wait for swapped pages read from disk. A reason for this could be memory overcommitment. Pay attention if %SWPWT is >5! 5 %MLMTD: Counter showing percentage of time a ready to run vCPU was not scheduled because of a CPU limit setting. Remove the limit for better performance. 1 %CSTP: This value is interesting if you are using vSMP virtual machines. It shows the percentage of time a ready to run VM has spent in co-deschedule state. If value is >3 decrease the number of vCPUs from the VM concerned. 3 %RDY: Percentage of time a VM was waiting to be scheduled.If you note values between five and ten percent take care. Possible reasons: too many vCPUs, too many vSMP VMs or a CPU limit setting (check %MLMTD) >10 Copyright 2012-2013 running-system.com | Designed By: Andi Lesslhumer | Version 1.1 CPU c Fields: D F CPU load average for the last one, five and 15 minutes Memory m Fields: B D J K Q average memory overcommitment for the last one, five and 15 minutes SWCUR: Memory (in MB) that has been swapped by VMKernel. Possible cause: memory overcommitment. 1 GAVG: GAVG = DAVG + KAVG >25 %DRPTX, %DRPRX: Dropped Packages transmitted/Dropped Packages received. Values larger 0 are a sign for high network utilization 1 Network n Fields: A B C D E F K L Used-by/Team-PNIC: provide information what physical NIC a VM is actually using. %VMWAIT: percentage of time a VM was waiting for some VMkernel activity to complete (such as I/O) before it can continue. Includes %SWPWT and "blocked", but not IDLE Time (as %WAIT does). Possible cause: Storage performance issue | latency to a device in the VM configuration eg. USB device, serial pass-through device or parallel pass-through device 100 %SYS: Percentage of time spent by system to process interrupts and to perform other system activities on behalf of the world. Possible cause: maybe caused by high I/O VM >20 running-system.com @lessi001